London law firm Client Earth has recently published a critique of Rio Tinto’s corporate reporting in the light of the Companies Act 2006 requirements, comparing Rio Tinto’s record with its reporting, and referring the company to the Financial Reporting...
The Canadian Friends of Burma (CFOB) is deeply concerned by reports that Export Development Canada (EDC), a state owned Crown corporation, intends to give as much as half a billion dollars in public subsidies to Ivanhoe Mines and its Chairman Robert Friedland for a...
Rochelle Dale, Jan Zender and other residents of the small town of Big Bay, Michigan, hosted a multi-faith fasting and prayer event on the Yellow Dog Plains, “in the shadow of Eagle Rock,” where Rio Tinto plans to open a nickel and copper sulfide mine. Representatives...
(Source: Miningwatch Canada newsletter Summer 2010) On March 31, 2010, the Government of Mongolia signed an investment agreement with Rio Tinto International Holdings Limited and Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. for the development of a massive gold/copper mine. On April 1, 2010,...
The Collaboration Agreement, signed 12 July, 2010, between the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Rio Tinto London Limited (Rio Tinto) commits IUCN and Rio Tinto to focus their collaborative projects on innovative and ground-breaking...
Should a price be put on the planet? Absolutely not, according to a commentary made on the Mines and Communities website last month: http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10166. Maybe, perhaps, perhaps not. That’s the apparent (lack of) conclusion to...
In May 2010 DanWatch issued a report on the alleged negative social & environmental impacts of the Cerrejon coal mine in northern Colombia, which supplies coal to DONG Energy and Vattenfall. Lawyer Armando Perez, working on behalf of the community of Tabaco, which...
Following a recent African conference, a substantial number of organisations, supported by their overseas colleagues, are calling for “the promotion and protection of community rights, the environment, and realisation of the aspirations of African peoples”...
London-listed mining firm Randgold Resources says it is to begin mining Africa’s largest undeveloped gold deposit – in eastern DR Congo. The mine will require the re-location of 15,000 people, but Randgold says the project has the support of the government...
The British government is acting unlawfully in refusing to put forward eligible UK companies and individuals trading in Congolese ‘conflict minerals’ for targeted UN sanctions, said campaign group Global Witness in an application to the High Court for a judicial...
The dumping of deadly toxic wastes on Ivory Coast, in 2006, has finally led to a million euro fine being imposed on the culprit company, Trafigura. London-based Trafigura is second only to Glencore as an international resources commodities trader – a substantial...
A Botswana judge has ruled that Bushmen who returned to their lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve are not allowed to drill wells for water. The decision condemns them to having to walk up to 380 km to fetch water in one of the driest places on earth. See...
